User:Fluffernutter
I think some of us have a really angry inner voice that we harness for motivation. I guess we figure if we're right, it should be okay to yell. It is a deeply misguided assumption that motivates no one and garners very negative results.
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Hi, I'm Fluffernutter. You may or may not know that a fluffernutter is a sandwich, but it's a fact and it's where my name comes from. In my volunteer time I am largely a wanderer and a wikignome - you might find me reading through anything from the history of Hugo Award winners (and fixing grammar where I spot errors) to the complete succession of the British Monarchy (and reverting vandalism I find there). Most of the articles I've written are in the domain of famous criminal cases, and many of them are of GA (or above) quality, but writing an article is slow, exacting work for me and tends to come and go as my attention allows. Outside of those article-focused times, the majority of my edits are little things that please my inner cleanup gnome: copyediting, cleaning up reference errors, and locking on to a particularly neglected category (like Women's History) to do a variety of bits and pieces to help.
Most Wikimedians call me "Fluffy" or "Fluff" ("Fluffer", which might seem like easy shorthand, is actually a very NSFW name indeed to call someone), but I also answer to my real name, Karen (though I'm so used to being referred to as a sandwich that "Karen" is less likely to catch my attention!).
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Pages I have created or significantly contributed to
- Andrea Phillips (created)
- Beefsteak (banquet) (created)
- Bazinaprine (created)
- Tetrindole (created)
- Kaycee Nicole (rewrote from the the ground up)
- R v Baillie (prose-prettifier-in-chief)
- The Case of the Dean of St Asaph (prose-prettifier-in-chief)
- Vere Bird, Jr. (prose-prettifier-in-chief)
- The Good-Morrow (prose-prettifier-in-chief)
- List of 1960 Winter Olympics medal winners
- User:Fluffernutter/Three quits and you're out (my attempt at a humorous WP essay)
- Black Widows of Liverpool (rewrote from the ground up)
- Martha Wise (created)
- Stella Nickell (rewrote)
- To-do: get Olsen book, expand
- Debora Green (rewrote) - "Today's Featured Article" on the main page 24 October 2015
- User:Fluffernutter/Bumpercars
- Della Sutorius (created)
- To-do: get Jones book, expand
- Sharon Kinne (created)
- Beverly Hills Supper Club fire (general quality improvement, including rewriting poor and/or POV language, reorganizing information, and verifying/expanding sourcing])
- Walkerton E. coli outbreak (rewrote and expanded)
Splits
I amuse myself by splitting the massive pages found at Special:LongPages into sub-articles. The ones I've done so far include:
- List of MeSH codes (D12.776)
- List of moths of North America
- List of RAF aircrew in the Battle of Britain
- List of public-access TV stations in the United States
- List of school-related attacks
- Buffalo Public Schools
Links I use
- Articles needing to be IPA-ified
- WP:EL
- user:Fluffernutter/c - post-suppression explanation
- user:Fluffernutter/coi - lengthy explanation of COI editing problems
To-do
General places to find gnoming tasks
- User:Gobonobo/Gender Gap red list - there's always a gendergap-related article that needs writing!
- Never lack for gnoming work again; just visit CleanupWorklistBot's lists of articles tagged for cleanup (grouped by article quality and category; sortable within those types by cleanup tag type and article importance)
- Category:Pages with incorrect ref formatting
- Category:Pages with missing references list
- The Guild of Copyeditors to see what needs copyediting today
Specific articles I want to work on
If you have an article you'd like me to copyedit, please drop a note on my talk pages; I'm usually available for short-ish articles within a day or two of request
- Albert Fish - previously a GA, article is now in need of a reorg/rewrite to shore up weak sourcing and excessive detail. See about access to Deranged: The Shocking True Story of America's Most Fiendish Killer by Harold Schechter as a source
- Lisette Lee - no article, but almost certainly notable per this
- Susan Smith - remarkably poor coverage given the number of sources available for the case (see this for some info, for ex)
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